Universal Robots, which has its North American headquarters in Novi, on Monday introduced Gen 7, its seventh-generation robotics platform.
Part of Teradyne Robotics Group, the Gen 7 premiered at the International Manufacturing Technology Show, or ITMS, at McCormick’s Place in Chicago. The show has 1,800 exhibitors, and draws engineers, innovators, and industry
Gen 7 represents a unified system upgrade, enhancing the robot user experience for operators, engineers, and integrators.
Anchored by the PolyScope X robot operating system, Gen 7 has a fully reengineered control box, teach pendant and tool flange — all designed to make tasks and setups easier.
“The robots of the AI era must be advanced, not complicated,” says Jean-Pierre Hathout, president of Teradyne Robotics Group. “Built on what we have learned from over 20 years of cobot innovation and more than 100,000 industrial deployments worldwide, Gen 7 is an end-to-end redesign of our platform that reduces integration friction and dramatically expands application capabilities.
“It will enable our customers and partners across industries to confidently deploy advanced AI-powered applications in real-world operations.”
At IMTS, Gen 7 is on display alongside 20-plus ecosystem partners, including demos of Gen 7 functionality. The demos illustrate how the platform’s open architecture allows physical AI, machine vision, and gripping providers build applications directly on Universal Robots hardware and software.
“Universal Robots and Inbolt share the same conviction, that automation should be simple to deploy and simple to live with,” says Rudy Cohen, CEO of Inbolt, one of the ecosystem partners.
“With Gen 7 and PolyScope X, Inbolt’s vision now runs natively on the UR controller itself, (and is) available directly through UR. No external vision PC, no extra cabling. Manufacturers get parts localized without jigs or fixtures, and reach production in hours, not weeks.”
Gen 7 states it is backed by UR+, a curated, rigorously tested portfolio of automation products, each validated by both the partner and UR before it reaches the market.
Universal Robots is part of Teradyne Robotics Group, a division of Teradyne Inc., a leading supplier of automated test equipment and advanced robotics systems.
For more information, visit universal-robots.com.
